Steven B. Johnson, on digital text applications: When your digital news feed doesn’t contain links, when it cannot be linked to, when it can’t be indexed, when you can’t copy a paragraph and paste it into another application: when this happens your news feed is not flawed or backwards looking or frustrating. It is broken.
Snow In Alpharetta
This certainly isn’t anything close to the weather that’s been seen this winter by my friends and family in the Maryland & Washington D.C., but it’s more than we’re used to here in the Atlanta area.
15 Favorite Books
There’s another “thing” making the rounds. 15 Favorite Books: “Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.” Here’s my list: The Shack – William P. Young The Gunslinger (and the rest of the Dark […]
It’s the Little Things
Application development, especially User Interface, is very much about “the little things.” The things that make life easier for users. Here’s a simple example, one that bugs me almost every time I use a browser. There are probably URLs that you type often and, for whatever reason, you don’t bother to make into bookmarks or […]
It’s Full!
Almost two years ago I wrote about and published photos of Lake Lanier, at that point somewhere around 15 feet below it’s normal level. Here’s the good news today:
College Football
The younger of our two sons is now also off to college, and my wife & I had an opportunity to visit with him on campus of Auburn University this past weekend. We also used TicketCity to get a couple of seats for the football game, and boy are we glad we did! We’ve been […]
The Wizard of Oz at 70
Seventy years. 70 Years! Wow, the movie we all know and love and reference in many ways – The Wizard of Oz was released seventy years ago. There is of course an 70th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition of the DVD available for purchase – this is almost a “must have” for any video library. If […]
Sending Full-Rez Photos from Your iPhone
I came across an interesting article today, Email Full-resolution Photos From the iPhone 3G S. The article applies to the non-‘S’ model, too, and probably to the earlier non-3G as well. iPhone users should give it a read; I hadn’t even payed enough attention to notice that sending photos via the obvious method does not send the […]
On Light, Or The Lack Thereof
Photography is, when all is said and done, an art in which light is a very important element. Where there is little light, we do what we can to compensate. We use strobes, we use fill lights, we use reflectors — sometimes with good results, but often not. There are times to just say “the […]
Ride To Work Day, Follow-Up
I work in a 5-story office building which shares the parking lot with another just like it. Ten floors of offices, I’m not sure how many employees work here. On a “normal” spring or summer day there are three bikes in the lot – my FZ-6, a Ninja and a Shadow. Today is Ride to […]